Artist Acro

Artist Acro
First tankōbon volume cover
アーティストアクロ
(Aateisuto Akuro)
Manga
Written byAto Sakurai [ja]
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine
  • Weekly Shōnen Sunday
  • (July 16, 2008 – October 31, 2009)
  • Club Sunday
  • (November 3, 2009 – March 16, 2010)
Original runJuly 2, 2008 – March 16, 2010
Volumes9
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Artist Acro (Japanese: アーティストアクロ, Hepburn: Aateisuto Akuro) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ato Sakurai [ja]. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 2008 to October 2009, and later on Club Sunday from November 2009 to March 2010. Its chapters were collected in nine tankōbon volumes.

Story

The series is set in a world where artists possess supernatural abilities called "skills". Artists require physical materials to manipulate in order to create supernatural phenomena, and skills require practice to use properly. Prior to the main events, a social hierarchy formed in which people with less developed or no skills were used as test subjects by those who were artists. Acro Hanbakka, a young boy, travels to the capital city, the Capital of the Arts, to hone his skills and become a great artist.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Ato Sakurai [ja], Artist Acro was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 2, 2008, to October 31, 2009. It was transferred to Shogakukan's online magazine Club Sunday on November 3, 2009, and finished on March 16, 2010. Shogakukan collected its chapters in nine tankōbon volumes, published from January 16, 2009, and May 18, 2010.

Volumes

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1January 16, 2009978-4-09-121577-2
2March 18, 2009978-4-09-121618-2
3June 18, 2009978-4-09-122022-6
4August 18, 2009978-4-09-121723-3
5November 18, 2009978-4-09-121888-9
6January 18, 2010978-4-09-122138-4
7March 18, 2010978-4-09-122189-6
8April 16, 2010978-4-09-122029-5
9May 18, 2010978-4-09-122298-5

Notes

  1. ↑ It started in the magazine's 31st issue of 2008 (with cover date July 16), released on July 2 of that same year (same date of Sakurai's first message on Web Sunday's Backstage).

References

  1. ↑ 週刊少年サンデー2008年31 (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on December 25, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  2. ↑ Vol.1/2008年7月2日. Web Sunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. July 2, 2008. Archived from the original on December 23, 2008. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  3. 1 2 桜井亜都「アーティストアクロ」クラブサンデーで連載開始. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 21, 2009. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ アーティストアクロ. Club Sunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ 桜井亜都 Vol.33/2010年3月17日. Web Sunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  6. 1 2 アーティスト アクロ 1 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. January 16, 2009. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  7. 1 2 アーティスト アクロ 9 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. May 18, 2010. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  8. ↑ アーティスト アクロ 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. March 18, 2009. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  9. ↑ アーティスト アクロ 3 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. June 18, 2009. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  10. ↑ アーティスト アクロ 4 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. August 18, 2009. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  11. ↑ アーティスト アクロ 5 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. November 18, 2009. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  12. ↑ アーティスト アクロ 6 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. January 18, 2010. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  13. ↑ アーティスト アクロ 7 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. March 18, 2010. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  14. ↑ アーティスト アクロ 8 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. April 16, 2010. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2020.